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Current Lab Members

Marcus Smolka Principal Investigator:

Marcus B. Smolka

Technician

Beatriz Almeida 2

Beatriz Almeida

Postdoctoral Associates

Graduate Students

William Comstock

Shrijan Bhattarai

Visiting Scientist

Giovanna Marques Panessa

Undergraduate Students

Previous Smolka Lab News

December 2023: Former postdoc Diego Dibitetto got a position as Principal Investigator at Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Italy, and will be starting his own lab in January 2024. Congratulations Diego!
November 2023: Graduate student Will Comstock wins best poster award at the EMBO Practical Course on Targeted Proteomics!
November 2023: Our new eLife paper by Carolline Ascenção uncovers how the ATR kinase promotes silencing of the XY chromosomes during meiosis to ensure male fertility.
May 2023: Congratulations to graduate student Will Comstock for being awarded an F31 fellowship from the National Cancer Institute – NIH!!! He will develop and apply novel technologies to monitor DNA damage signaling responses and uncover anti-cancer drug synergies.
May 2023: Congratulations to undergraduate student Yiseo Rho and her graduate student mentor Will Comstock for the best poster award at the CURB symposium.
March 2023: Congratulations to graduate student Jumana Badar for receiving The Harry & Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award !!!
September 2022: Our new paper in Molecular Cell reports a suprising role for the DNA-PKcs kinase in DNA replication, with implication for understanding chemoresistance.
- See highlights:
  - Story by the Cornell Chronicle: “Discovery explains cancer chemotherapy resistance, offers solution.”
  - Nature Reviews: “The Forks Guardian”
August 2022: Congratulations to postdoc Jason Wang for receiving the Postdoctoral Fleming Fellowship!!
May 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Jumana Badar for
receiving the Community Outreach Award and being nominated for the Excellence in Leadership Award!!
May 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Will Comstock for receiving the CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!!
March 2022: Congratulations to Carolline Ascenção for receiving the ASCB International Training Scholarship!!
February 2022: Our new work in eLife reveals the ATR signaling network in mammalian meiosis.

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